Mental Health Outreach Coordinator

About the role

The Mental Health Outreach Coordinator will work as a participating team member in the integrated care model of the UCCS Wellness Center, collaborating with Campus Recreation to promote physical health, mental health, nutrition, and wellness.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates within and across disciplines and departments to plan and execute wellbeing initiatives, programs and events.
• Provides resources and trains faculty, staff and students on resiliency, belonging and mindfulness practices and partners with faculty to implement practices into classroom curriculum.
• Works with a team of students and professionals to develop promotional and educational program materials, and at times may create marketing, and social media posts.
• Creates and administers assessment measures for wellness promotion programs and ensures program specific data is collected from Wellness Promotion events.
• Creates, schedules, and delivers interactive trainings, workshops, and classroom presentations on a variety of mental health and wellbeing topics in collaboration with other campus partners.
• Serves as a speaker/consultant on mental health and emotional wellbeing topics, and provides support on additional wellness areas (e.g., sleep, stress management, physical activity, substance use) as needed.
• Leads the promotion, visibility, and campus-wide engagement for the Skills for Optimizing Student Success (SOS) program, serving as the primary point.
• Provides ongoing Skills for Optimizing Student Success (SOS) individual meetings, group sessions, presentations and campuswide education.
• Collaborates closely with the Dean of Student’s Office within the scope of case management duties.
• Attends all Student Support meetings through the CARE team to connect students with on- and off-campus resources.
• Attends the CARE team meeting, as needed, when the Lead Case Manager is unable to attend to help determine if students on CARE team would benefit from the case manager’s support.
• Collaborates and coordinates with the Dean of Students’ Office, to provide the most thorough and effective support possible.
• Takes self-referrals from UCCS staff and faculty and then determines the needs of the community members and connects them with the appropriate resources and services in the community.
• Carries out needs assessments for each individual case so that an appropriate level of care is determined and planned.
• If there is a need, helps students practice emotion regulation skills, basic assertiveness, and other interpersonal skills to be able to improve accessibility of resources.
• Follows up with each case to make sure the needs are met; if not, continues to work with the case until the established services and the resources start to benefit the individual.

Requirements

• A master’s degree in Health Promotion, Public Health, Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a similar field from an accredited university.
• Experience in a role that includes establishing relationships with key stakeholders including students, employees and administrators.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing resources and managing individual cases for mental health needs.
• Fluency in Spanish and ability to provide services to UCCS community in Spanish (highly desired).
• Post-graduate training and certifications in a mental health, health/wellness-related field (e.g. QPR, HeartMath, Certified Peer Educator, Health Coach, Mental Health First Aid, or BASICS).
• Experience working in a higher education wellness field.